Saline High School - Salinian Yearbook (Saline, MI)

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SALUTATORY Parents, teachers, classmates, and friends! The grad- uating class is happy to see so many of you here tonight. Tonight is an important night to us, for tomorrow we shall face the future as high school graduates. We are but a part of a vast group of young people that are being graduated this year. Twelve years of school life are behind us--years in which our work has been well sche- duled and well planned. We have been under the guidance and supervision of e great number of wiser and more exper- ienced individuals--our teachers. They have been impart- ing knowledge to us and have shown us the necessity of cooperation, of getting along with others, and of thinking for ourselves. They have developed in us poise, personal- ity, courage, self-confidence, and other oualities. We appreciate their efforts in this direction, even though we probably didn't show due appreciation at all times. We are beginning to realize how trying we must have been on particular occasions and what courage and determination was needed on the part of the teachers to make us see their point of view. But now they have done all they can for us. We will not be under their guidance any longer. We are en- tering new conditions in which we must do our own thinking, use our own judgement, and exercise our own ingenuity. Although we are being graduated amid a much darker outlook than the class which used as its motto, HW. P. A. Here We Comen, we feel that there are still opportunities, and that these opportunities are greater because of world conditions. We are not going to allow ourselves to be gonouered by a philosophy of defeat before we have even egun. Of course, we do not want to be too optomistic, as we may be sadly disappointed when we find some of our hopes shattered. We want to look at the future as it truly exists, a place where the courageous, the ambitious, the strong can still succeed. You, my fellow classmates must face the fu- ture courageouslyi Recently the Fortune Magazine took a survey of the personal hopes and fears of American citizens. lt was dis- covered that fifty-six and three-tenths percent of persons of all ages and conditions think Hthat the years ahead hold a good chance for advancement.H About five out of every six young people from the ages of seventeen to twenty-five were found to be especially hopeful of the future. It is encouraging to know that youth everywhere has such a bright outlook upon the life it faces, because these are the kind of people that are needed in tomorrow's world. Each one of us in this graduating class has his goal to obtain, his objectives to work for in the future. He also knows that he will have to work hard. Some of us are going to attend college to prepare ourselves more fully for the position we wish to occupy in the world. Others will

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the co obtain jobs and educate themselves through their exper- iences. But whatever our job happens to be, we want to do it well. We do not want to think that just because our task may be small and comparatively insignificant that it doesn't matter how it is done or whether it is done at all. Other people will notice how efficient we are and will give us larger, more important things to do In this way, we can work ourselves up into the position we have been striving for. We will reach our goals this way but just like the saying UProsperity is just around ern, so it is with the goals we obtain As Pte fn ' , r. L 4, says in his poem HEldoradoU, we are never satisfied with our accomplishmentsg we no more than reach the goal we have been aiming at for so long when we set up another goal a little higher than the one we have just reached. Ve do this so that we will have something more to work for. If we didn't, we would have no more goals and our efforts would not be able objective. Work is not the what we want to. We This confidence does an extent that it resembles conceit, but it should be emphasized enough so that people will know that you have faith in your own ability. Otherwise, how are others to directed toward attaining a desir- onlv thing necessary to accomplish must have confidence in ourselves. not have to be exercised to such have confidence in the things you can do, if you yourself are not sure you can do it? In his essay USelf-Reliance, Emerson points out how necessary this ouality is in the realization of one's ambition. No only should one show others that he has the ability to do what is expected of him, but that he will do it. Dependability is a most important quality for the growth of character and will be found necessary in almost any phase of life. Of course, we cannot be individually minded all the time. There are some tasks that not any one of us can accomplish along. Such tasks need the cooperation of all of us. We must prepare for National Defense. When I say National Defense I do not speak in terms of armies, navies, and enemies, but in the sense of arming against the problems that have arisen within our country and within our more immediate surroundings. It is up to our generation to make our American democracy survive. I do not mean our democratic form of government along, but also our democratic way of living. We need leadership in order to do this. The more educated class can be ex- pected to furnish the leadership, as it is better ouali- fied, Edlczted people can more easily detect the flaws in our social order and can more successfully apply the proper rencdyq They cannot be swayed as readily ry pro- pagaidaf Whey will guard against the propaganda cf Eng- land, and France as well as that of Germany, italy, and Russia. There are many problems that can be solved only through the cooperation of each and everyone. The problem